"Hitachi?s strategic investment and commitment in the
enterprise market is evident with the new Ultrastar SSD family. Our
new SSD product family not only symbolizes our market opportunity to
serve evolving cloud data center infrastructures, but also delivers
value to our customers in terms of increasing data center performance
and reducing total cost of ownership," said Mike Cordano, executive
vice president of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Hitachi GST. "We have
a strong track record of working with global enterprise customers and
are proud to report favorable responses to the Ultrastar SSD400S
family. With qualifications now underway, we anticipate volume
shipments to commence in the first half of 2011."

The enterprise SSD market is growing at an estimated 73 percent
compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2009-2014. Social networks,
mobile applications, web TV, online video services and new tablet-like
devices - all operating in the cloud - are fueling the need for faster
storage solutions and improvements in high throughput and I/O
performance so data can be delivered to consumers with virtually no
latency. Meanwhile, data centers are pushing the boundaries to make
storage more efficient, from reducing floor space, power and cooling
to leveraging next-generation technologies, like virtualization,
deduplication and thin provisioning. All of this is causing a shift in
how today's IT managers are building tomorrow's data centers.

Hitachi understands enterprise storage needs - from controllers,
firmware, BIOS and operating systems (OS). With a global Systems
Integration Technology Lab (SIT Lab), Hitachi works to ensure
compatibility and ease of integration into new or existing tier 0
enterprise storage systems and designs. This makes it easier to bring
products to market more quickly and cost-effectively. With this level
of commitment, the Ultrastar SSD family has been and continues to be
rigorously tested in dozens of OEM system platforms across nearly a
hundred configurations resulting in millions of drive hours under
test.

Working in collaboration with Intel, the Ultrastar SSD400S family
combines enterprise-grade NAND flash, proprietary endurance firmware
and power loss management techniques to extend the reliability,
endurance and sustained performance of the new SSD family. The 400GB
SSD can endure up to 35 petabytes (PB) of random writes over the life
of the drive, which is the equivalent of writing 19.2TB/day for five
years, ensuring greater utilization and reliability in the most
demanding enterprise environments. For complete end-to-end data
protection and reliability, the Ultrastar SSD400S family includes
advanced data integrity and power loss management technologies that
are tied with industry standards to ensure compatibility in
multi-tiered SSD/HDD system designs.

The new Ultrastar SSD400S family delivers the industry's highest
sequential throughput. It is the first to reach up to 535MB/s read and
500MB/s write throughput with 6Gb/s SAS, and 390MB/s read and 340MB/s
write throughput with 4Gb/s FC. The new drive also delivers up to
46,000 read and 13,000 sustained write IOPS, reaching speeds 100 times
faster than traditional hard drives, resulting in rapid response times
for real-time transaction processing access to 'hot' enterprise data
for improved productivity and operational efficiency. As fewer SSDs
are required to achieve the same HDD ultra-high performance, the new
Ultrastar SSD400S family offers significant value in terms of IOPS per
Watt, while reducing TCO through low power consumption, efficient
cooling and reduced space requirements.

Hitachi GST has already shipped and is currently qualifying its
Ultrastar SSD400S drives with select OEMs. Broader qualification
samples are now available with product ramp scheduled in 2011. The
Ultrastar SSD400S family is backed by a five-year limited warranty, or
the maximum petabytes written (based on capacity).